Sure people understand basic propositions. Even bart simpson gets it. Now i would like to get to this idea of American Mythology and the imaginary indian. We are deeply in the american dna. Every major american myth, major american origin story has to account for the indians in sunlight. Here we see columbus arriving in the new world looking remarkably fresh. But hiding in the righthand corner are the indians who were there when columbus arrived. We want to get into this business of the Columbian Exchange. Indians have not only then he raised from American History they have any raised from World History not only have the indians then he raced erased from American History, they have been erased from World History. Massive amounts of technology, wealth, labor, food left in the americas for europe and asia. Meanwhile, they were sending back to the new world many things of their own. A lot of animals, different plants. Of course, disease. Disease was the most devastating factor. It was the
Historians would actually call the american revolution. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton. Taxation without representation. Other founders and historical highlights all popped up. A few of you also mentioned places like historic jamestown, plymouth plantation in massachusetts and Colonial Williamsburg. A few people mentioned the history of slavery. It was notably because of either the 16 19 project or black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women, i think, or any individual Indigenous People by name. No one mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less the mississippi, rockies, or west coast. Technically speaking, this course runs from before contact in the 15th century too 1763. The end of the seven yearswar, french and indian war, in what is now the territory called the United States of america. This covers hundreds of years, millions of lives, half of which were women, coming together of
Carnage at, yet another u. N. Schoolhousing refugees in gaza. The third time they have bombed the u. N. Run school. The state department was appalled by the disgraceful shelling outside the school. There can be no question of the state identity . No, absolutely, no. There was encouraging news about an american doctor infected with ebola. I cant think of a better place in the world, other than Emory University hospital, to care for this patient. The plane has picked up the second ebola patient to go to georgia. Congress has left the building. Leading the president promising to go solo on the humanitarian crisis at the border. So thats not disagreement between me and the house of republicans. That is a green light between the republicans and the house of republicans. What are you going to do about it . I think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at this constitutional and that includes that i word we dont want to say. I think it would be foolish to discount the possibility.
In new york and new jersey and many others. But in many states things have gotten much worse. And you wouldnt know that if you listened to the white house. Donald trump does not like bad news, he doesnt like to confront reality, which is why he told us the cases which just crossed two million were going down to zero. And crucially and perhaps more importantly, donald trump just has a painfully short Attention Span. We talked about the fact the president abandoned any pretense of caring of spread of the virus and over a hundred thousand deaths. He got bored a month ago when he could no longer use coronavirus briefings as political rallies and just flitted on to the next thing. You see it in everything he does. Just today amidst all of the unrest, crisis, he was complaining fox news cut away from a congressional hearing he was watching at 11 00 a. M. On a weekday. This afternoon he threaded together a truly bazaar argument highlighting a history of winning, victory and freedom, all attri
He told us the cases which just crossed two million were going down to zero. And crucially and perhaps more importantly, donald trump just has a painfully short Attention Span. We talked about the fact the president abandoned any pretense of caring of spread of the virus and over a hundred thousand deaths. He got bored a month ago when he could no longer use coronavirus briefings at political rallies and just flitted on to the next thing. You see it in everything he does. Just today amidst all of the unrest, crisis, he was complaining fox news cut away from a congressional hearing he was watching at 11 00 a. M. On a weekday. This weekend, renaming military bases highlighting a history of winning, victory and freedom, all attributes not typically associated with the confederacy. Donald trump as the Attention Span of a fruit fly, but the thing about it is the virus is still there. Its not gone. There is still a pandemic to manage and things are getting worse in parts of the country and n